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London, December 9.--Whether big prizes are essential to the prosperity of racing is not a ques tion for basty or impulsive decis ion. No end of people, looking merely at superficialities would at once answer: "Yes, they are essential." One feels instinctive ly of most things that they are good or bad, right or wrong, as the case may be, and these first impressions are so often borne out that it might be unjust to glass these lightning plumpers for linge turf prizes with the thoughtless and unreflecting. But the matter is important and needs close atten-

'tion.

Have higger prizes always ensured larger fields and keener competition?

the

This question can be answered

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On or about the 28th inst.,: Messrs. Andersen, Meyer and Co. will move to No. 2 Queen's Road Central, the old Grand Hotel building, where they have leased the entire first and second floors, The first floor will be occupied by the Engineering and Import De-

partments, and the second floor by the Export Department and Consulting Rooms. The engineer- ing show room will be enlarged. and all the latest and bist) mechanical and electrical sup plies will be on exhibition. The Import Department will be supplied with ample space and a full line of samples. Limited stocks will be carried in Hong- kong, and very large stocks in Margaret Ashworth writes:-Shanghai and Manila.

BUGLES.

TRIBUTE TO A MIDNIGHT MELODY.

There was a certain, late Scot- Andersen, Meyer & Co Ltd., tish nobleman who liked to up-have been successful in pencuring | par unbidden to sup with his very large collection of Amer friends in a neighbouring valley, iran agencies, which are well and he had the pleasant habit of recognised amongst the largest feming to his entertainme: and best of the world.

social, by two pipers and a

The Engineering Department le nehm His way lagacross

represent the following -The much nutracked country, Lag before the little party could Allied Machinery Co. of America, be seen the sand of pipes in the Babcock & Wilcox Co. (Am. Co.). merk of the hills heralded ita, Baldwin Locomotive Works, Barn- Approach. It is inevitable that ard & Leas Manufacturing Com- such customs shoult die in the pany, J. G. Brill, British Thom- throttling grip moleraity has on son-Houston Company. (Rugby), man's mind. Another generation Buffalo Gasoline Motor Com and the host of the car, if not the

pany, Buffalo-Springfield Road of the aer plane, will have i

Co., R. & J. replaced that ancient musie.

Dick Limited, (Glasgow), Edison Storage Battery Company, Fairbanks, Morse & Comany, Garlock Packing Company, General Electric Company of America. Harrison Safety Boiler Works, Hercules Powder Com. pany, Hooven, Owen, Rentschler

The pipes of the Scotsman are without any hesitation in the probably a the relic negative. For example, there is barbarism, but there is something the last of the impersonal, unearthly, in their spring handicaps, and so vastly sound that has only one parallel popular with Londoners. Usually in our island life; the notes of its value is about treble that of bugle. No one who has ever the Lincolnshire Handicap. Onhound the long-drawn skirl of the the principle. therefore, of the biggest prizes attracting best

and most horses the

excel those which assemble on the bleak windswept Carholme but in point of numbers, at any Then "there is the Grand National at Liverpool, worth only £1.975 to the winner in 1895a random

rate. this is not the case.

selection of data whereas all 23815 in 1914. But these higher Sloper credited Lady Nelson with

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Peking, Feb. 2. The foreign Ministers strongly opposing a Japanese lau of $20,000,000.

Leung Shih-yee is opposing thei

Established 1880.

The Paris delegates have cabled that the Conference will discuss the Shangtung secret agreement when President Wilson agaiu returns to Europe in March.

INFANTILE INDIGESTION.

the coming and going in the Co., Kellogg Switchboard & glen can ever forget the souni: Supply Co., Keufell & Esser Co., Jubilee felds should greatly who has ever listene Koppel Industrial Car & Equip

tote of a bigle crying thement Co., James Leffel Company, Lastest in the reverberating Ligerwood Manufacturing Co. darkness of an empty shore and McConway & Törley sea, can ever forget that either. Milburn Wagon Company, a In each case there is a portend of tional Carbon Company. Pelton. unreality, of nusen visitation.

Water Wheel Co., Pressed Steel According to rumeur, peuple Car Company, E. Reader & Sons, suggestion for the intercation- In babies and very young whose homes have lain within call Ltd. (Nottingham, England); Balisation of Chinese railways. The children indigestion is caused by of a large training camp have had See Electric Elevator Con Saco foreign press has expressed sur-errors in diet, frequently by over over much of the music of the Lowell Shops, Scott & Williams, prise at Liang's pro-Japanese and feeding. Its symptoms are loss last for years. Yet it is hard to Schroeder Headlight Co., Skinner auti-British and anti-American of appetite, peevishness, wind. believe but that they will be Engine Company. Cociete Gen- attitu‹le. sorry when those clear nutes novoise (Geneva), Standard Steel bouger tell that the morning and Works, Standard Underground evening have made another day. Cable Co., Sullivan Machinery Not that one would wish such Company, U. S. Graphite Com- signals to become universal: that Pany, Winchester Repeating Arms sirens for steam bagles; Manufacturing Company. factories should change their Company, Worthington Pump and Machinery Corp. and Wason orbit!

The Import Department re- The bugie belongs properly to present the following: Sherwin the ancient ritual of war, and Williams Co., Simmons Hardware

emoluments have not made one particle of difference to the race itself.

Compared with the Jubilee and the Grand National for value the Cesarewitch and Cambridgeshire are very small potatoes." Yet these handicaps invariably arouse the back end for one thing, while the fiercest rivalry. They come at as everbody knows they have always been tremendous betting mediums.

If big prizes are essential, and

money coming from?

vomiting, furred tongue, bad breath, biccough and restless China's claim against er nights. The best treatment is many for indemnity for losses Baby's Own Tablets, which clear during war, after investigation, away the offending matter and is based as follows:-Military sweeten the stomach. With pro- expenses and lusses in commerce per attention to the diet they form one section; loss of lives effect a prompt cure. another. The total lives lost are 1,178 labourers and 788 sailors, while two students died in actual fighting-

The balance of the Japanese

must be provided, where is the 10 centaries bas sounded the Company, United States Rubber passing of heroes. And those Export Company, Certain-teed who live tu rejoice in that Products Corporation, Belknap leau, 17 millions, has been paid Glass Company, Parks, Davis and public indignation is intens and Company, Merck and Com-ified. pany, Procter and Gamble Dis

stales

Shanghai, Feb. 23. The whole Conference net un the morning of the 22nd inst. and after a discussion of the Shensi question, which, is partly

meat.

THE "TELEGRAPII

IS

settled, the diplomatic question THE FEATURE PAPER. was discussed. Tang Shao-yee said the whole country is excited

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Baby's Own Tablets, the Cana- dian children's remed, are the most valuable medicine you can have in the nurary. They are guaranteed free from opiates and absolutely harmless, and are a remendy for teething troubles, Not only do the reconstruct-millenain wherein all war must

constipation, colic, diarrhoea, ionists call out for more prize ease, will, it is to be hoped, see

simple fever and worms. They money. They want it-which is

promote a healthy appetite, rest- A Shanghai report to it that the bugle is decently important to be added money.

ful sleep and regular develop- Some races are frankly devoid of buried with the sword, and not tributing Company and Scottish that Chi Kai-kin's credentials

Tuber Campany (Glasgow). all, endowment-owners provide turn into some changeling for

are not recognised, owing to the

"Sold by chemists, or by mail at Many of every penny of the money. It is domestic inerrineat.

the engineering power given him being insulli 60 cents the vial by the Dr. asserted, and no doubt correctly, Measured by human calcula- agencies have special representa cient. The credential states that Williams' Medicine Co., 96 Sze that owners subscribe in entrance tius, the war has taken somewhere they are available at all from time to time.

tives in the Shanghai Office, Chu must refer details to Peking chuen Road, Shanghai. fees and forfeit 60 per cent. of four years out of the even tenor times for expert technical advice, the entire stake money!

of our lives, and given instead and visit the various offices when Lord D'Abernon has bluntly what seemed to be at the time as their services are required. The said this state of things must be altered. He was setting out the unending spell of horror mud first six Companies shown in confusion. It tore from us lure Import Department also have protests and demands of the stake reconstructionists, and looked in Luton our dress of peace, special representatives who visit round the world for and girt us about with the the different offices and call on supporting examples. Among panoply of the battlegroun, the trade. other races he cited the Grand And such is our childishness The above staff of specialists Prix with £12,000 added money, that we cannot help thinking enable Andersen, Meyer and the A.J. O Derby with £5,000, lovingly of one item of that Company to furnish very valuable by the Sino-Japanese matter and and the Melbourne Cup with investiture, the midnight bagles.collecting their Agencies, quality wire to Peking to disclose the

service to the trade, and in both delegates should jointly | On MONDAYS for £8,000. Of these three examples

Are there any of us who have has been of prime importance so military agreement with Japan, the least felicitous is the French sat nader our frail roofs in those that the trade will be assured of and all supplementary secret great part of its endowment.nights of bombs and gunfire, and not only purchasing the best This in 1914, after which war heard the fusillade become fainter obtainable, but that it will fully agreements. Chu Kai-kim said on TUESDAYS for

things, included and fainter and cease; and have answer the requirements it is he had wired :- certam interrupted £10,000 given by the City of Paris waited, fearful lest it should purchased for.

suggestions to Peking already, "AN ISLANDER'S DIARY and a large sum by the railway return; and have then heard the The rapid increase of business and he realizes that the people companies. How much more silence shattered by the joyous has made it necessary to move to shoull back up the Government's On WEDNESDAYS for worthy the Victory Derby next notes of the "All "olear," who larger quarters, and every care diplomacy. He agrees to wire June would be in a financial sense could help loving bugies? has been taken in building up to Peking to detsand their dis if the the City and Country of London were adding $60,000 to with the dead honour of battle-a full benefit of this wonder Russo-Japanese negotiations to

Let bagles pass and be buried the local staff, so that Hongkong, closure.

South China will reap the stake and the two railway We still have brase bands and ful collections of Agencies.

The Russian Legation denies companies which serve Epsom and resp such a golden harvest in gramophones,

Japan, as rumoured by Japan. yield outer Mongolian rights to

The question of the inter- ROBBIE'S LETTER" national administration "of rail- ways in China has already on SATURDAYS for the: been taken up by the Paris Comference. The administration **PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT? officials are British, 22; American, 20, French, 12: Japanese, 9 Russian and Belgium, 3 each.

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Mr. F. W. Cox, the Manager, is well known in business circles. Ways and means do not readily Here is a chance for the recon-Before taking charge of the South suggest themselves for raising a structionist. My own ideas can China business for Andersen, big prize augmentation fund. wait-I should like to have those Meyer and Company, Limited, he Lord D'Abernon says the bettor of other people before cutting was their representative for the must pay his quota." I asked loose.

Baldwin Locomotive Works with him to explain whether by this It any scheme has taken Headquarters at Shanghai, he meant:

tangible shape in Lord D'Aber

No doubt Andersen, Mayer and either of his supporters, I am sure true spirit of American initiative. The Fursign Department has SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY nor's mind, or in the mind of Company, Limited, represent the mutuel? These are extreme mea the racing public would Jetsures, and for the present Lord interested to have it. Moreover, which is being now felt more to War Parkerpation Army will Note the day on which your

be and aggressive business policy, notified the foreign Ministers that D'Abernon wishes to see what its ventilation might bring in fully throughout the world than can be done in other directions; useful and even valuable hints,

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